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HomeUpcoming EventsRyan Cox (ANU) : Epistemic Conditions On Acting For a Reason *Midterm Review*
Ryan Cox (ANU) : Epistemic Conditions on Acting for a Reason *Midterm Review*

Some philosophers, most notably, G. E. M. Anscombe, have claimed that if an agent is acting for a reason she must know what she is doing and the reason for which she is doing it. This claim is an instance of what I will call an epistemic condition on acting for a reason---a particular kind of metaphysically necessary condition on acting for a reason. In this talk I motivate an epistemic condition on acting for a reason in the spirit of Anscombe's and examine its implications for accounts of what it is to act for a reason.

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  • Tue 27 Aug 2013, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Coombs Seminar Room B

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